Resources


Find Mental and Behavioral Health Providers

  • Indiana’s Division of Mental Health & Addiction (DMHA) search engine
    Provides options for individuals who are seeking mental health and/or addiction treatment service options and housing needs should an individual need a place to stay while going through addiction treatment and recovery.
  • Online Therapy Directory
    An international online therapy directory connecting people with therapists worldwide.
  • Psychology Today
    Find detailed listings for mental health professionals in the United States.
  • Inclusive Therapists
    Make it simpler and safer for people in marginalized communities.
  • SAMHSA
    A confidential and anonymous source of information for persons seeking treatment facilities in the United States or U.S. Territories for substance use/addiction and/or mental health problems.
  • Therapists trained in suicide care
    Locate a CAMS TRAINED clinician who can help you or your loved one.

Websites


Useful Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Mobile Apps

Mental Health or Suicide Prevention

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App Name in App Store

Description / Features

Suicide Prevention

Got your back

Got Your Back

Got Your Back is a digital platform for suicide awareness, prevention and education.  There are tools custom built for the user to help cope with anxiety and depression including messaging tools for people in your squad making them aware that you are NOT OKAY’; one-touch access to crisis centers and hotlines;  and mindfulness and calming exercises to help guide the user through moments of anxiety. It also includes a suicide safety plan feature.

Suicide Prevention

Virtual Hope Box

Virtual Hope Box

Virtual Hope Box helps users access immediate reminders of hope in moments of stress.  Users can upload personally meaningful photos, videos, songs, and quotes. They can also choose puzzles, relaxation exercises and guided meditations, and “coping tools” (self-created cards, activity planning alarms, and a phone contact list) in the app to consolidate many resources in one app. It also includes a suicide safety plan feature.

Suicide Prevention

Suicide Safety Plan

Suicide Safety Plan

Suicide Safety Plan helps users cope and stay safe when they’re experiencing suicidal thoughts. The app allows users to program useful information, including personal warning signs, coping strategies, contacts, and more. It also allows users to easily contact help and provides them with educational resources to help them make the most of their safety plan.

Suicide Prevention

A Friend Asks

A Friend Asks

A free app for youth that helps provide the information, tools, and resources to help a friend (or yourself) who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide.  It includes suicide warning signs, do’s and don’ts, and a direct link to the 988 Crisis & Suicide Lifeline.

Non-Suicidal Self Injury

Calm Harm

CalmHarm

Designed for youth who self harm, this app provides activities/techniques to Comfort, Distract, Express Yourself, and Release. It has breathing exercise to help you be mindful and stay in the moment, regulate difficult emotions, and reduce tension which can be helpful for those thinking of suicide too.

Mental Health

What's up

What’s Up

What’s Up is an free app that uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and more. Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your good habits, and break those that are counterproductive. We particularly love the “Get Grounded” page, which contains over 100 different questions to pinpoint what you’re feeling, and the “Thinking Patterns” page, which teaches you how to stop negative internal monologues. 

Mental Health

Mood Kit

Mood Kit (only on IOS)

MoodKit uses the foundation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and provides users with over 200 different mood improvement activities. Developed by two clinical psychologists, MoodKit helps you learn how to change how you think, and develop self-awareness and healthy attitudes. The journal feature is a great way to practice self-care by reflecting on the day, noting any distressing thoughts, and documenting how you overcame them.

Mental Health

Mind Shift

Mind Shift

Mind Shift is one of the best mental health apps designed specifically for teens and young adults with anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxious feelings, Mind Shift stresses the importance of changing how you think about anxiety. Think of this app as the cheerleader in your pocket, encouraging you to take charge of your life, ride out intense emotions, and face challenging situations.

Mental Health

Self Help for the Mind (SAM)

Self-Help for the Mind (SAM)

SAM might be perfect for you if you’re interested in self-help, but meditation isn’t your thing. Users are prompted to build their own 24-hour anxiety toolkit that allows you to track anxious thoughts and behavior over time, and learn 25 different self-help techniques. You can also use SAM’s “Social Cloud” feature to confidentially connect with other users in an online community for additional support.

Mental Health

Wisdo

Wisdo

Wisdo provides a peer support network for users to connect with others who have shared experiences. Users can select from three main topic areas; ‘Self Growth’, ‘Mental Health’, and ‘Identity’, and a variety of subtopics. Once a user selects their subtopic, they can then choose if they have “been there” and can support others, or are “there now” and need support. Users can connect and build a support network with each other and also message each other privately. There are also “live” weekly coaching sessions from certified individuals.

Mental Health

Finch

Finch

Finch is a unique self-care app that encourages the user to fill out reflective questionnaires, set goals, and develop positive habits. By combining healthful practices with an adorable virtual pet, the Finch app also supports self-care for humans. It offers a list of self care activities you can such as meditations, breathing exercises, journal reflections, soundscapes, daily check-ins, and motivational quotes.

Mental Health

Calm

Calm

One of the first mental health apps to be developing for guided meditation and sleep. Calm teaches a person about the foundations of mindfulness meditation and provides access to a library of meditation sessions and programs that target specific themes, such as dating, panic, anxiety, and deep sleep.

The app also provides exercises, breathing techniques, music, and bedtime stories for people who are tense, feel anxious, or want to improve quality of their sleep.

Mental Health

Headspace

Headspace

This popular app helps you learn how to breathe, live, and meditate – mindfully. This app is specifically designed to help you improve focus, induce calm, manage stress, and improve sleep. It offers hundreds of guided meditations, mini-meditations, sleep sounds, SOS meditations for emergencies, meditations for kids, and animations to help you better understand meditation

Mental Health

Happify

Happify

Need a happy fix? With its psychologist-approved mood-training program, the Happify app is your fast-track to a good mood. Try various engaging games, activity suggestions, gratitude prompts and more to train your brain as if it were a muscle, to overcome negative thoughts. The best part? Its free!

Mental Health

Mood Tolls

MoodTools

MoodTools aims to support people with clinical depression by aiding the path to recovery. Discover helpful videos that can improve your mood and behavior, log and analyze your thoughts using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles, develop a suicide safety plan and more with this free app.

Mental Health

nOCD

nOCD

nOCD was designed with the help of OCD specialists and patients to incorporate two treatments: mindfulness and Exposure Response Prevention Treatment. You can receive immediate, clinically-supported guidance when an OCD episode strikes, take weekly tests to assess the severity of your OCD, and have motivational support along the way. One user calls nOCD “a free therapist in your pocket!”

Mental Health

PTSD Coach

PTSD Coach

Created by the VA’s National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), PTSD Coach offers everything from a self-assessment for PTSD, to opportunities to find support, positive self-talk, and anger management. What’s great about this app is that you can customize tools based on your own individual needs and preferences, and integrate your own contacts, photos, and music.

Mental Health

Breath 2 Relax

Breathe 2 Relax

Sometimes you just need to breathe and remind yourself you are okay. Breathe2Relax is made for just that. Created by the National Center for Telehealth and Technology, this app is a portable stress management tool that teaches users a skill called diaphragmatic breathing. Breathe2Relax works by decreasing the body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ stress response, making it a great option for people suffering from PTSD

Mental Health

Talk Space

Talk Space

Talkspace is a top-rated therapy app that helps users confidently and comfortably connect with a licensed therapist of their choice. With access to thousands of therapists, you can easily find the best one for you. The app also allows for messaging, phone calls, and video chat, and utilizes the best technology to make sure your conversations remain protected.

Mental Health

PFA Mobile

PFA Mobile

PFA Mobile is an app provides additional support when a responder is in the field by providing tips on different survivor groups (infant/toddler, preschool, school-age, adolescent, adult) and keeping track of survivor concerns and referral needs. Resource links are included to facilitate referrals. PFA Mobile™ is designed to supplement other resources that trained individuals utilize before, during, and after a disaster response.


Support Groups

  • Alternatives to Suicide is a peer based support group led by people who have thoughts of suicide for people who have thoughts of suicide. 
  • Support groups for suicide loss survivors here

Toolkits

The Indiana Department of Health’s Division of Fatality Review and Prevention in collaboration with the Suicide Learning Collaborative, a multi-disciplinary working group addressing suicide in Indiana, developed a Suicide Prevention Resources Toolkit. Toolkit sections include healthcare, first responders, government, stakeholder groups, justice, employers, faith-based, media, coroners, family, education and populations of special consideration. View the toolkit here.



Suicide Data

Suicide in Indiana 2017 – 2021
Suicide in Indiana 2017 - 2021

Suicide Thoughts, Suicide Plans & Suicide Attempts Data

Data Sources:
Middle school data: Indiana Youth Survey, 2022, Indiana University, https://inys.indiana.edu/docs/survey/indianaYouthSurvey_2022.pdf 
High school data: Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data (YRBS) 2021, Indiana Department of Health,  https://www.in.gov/health/mch/files/2021-YRBS-Presentation.pdf
Adult data: National Survey on Drug Use & Health (NSDUH), 2019-2020, Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), https://pdas.samhsa.gov/saes/state 

From 2016 to 2020, 5,178 people in Indiana died by suicide, with a suicide rate of 15.46 deaths per 100,000 people (IDOH, Vital Records). According to the CDC, Indiana had a higher suicide rate higher than 22 other states in 2020 (CDC, Suicide Rates by State 2022).

Suicide death rates differ by race and ethnicity, sex, and age.
Suicide Death Rates by Age Group
Suicide Death Rates by Sec
Suicide Death Rates by Race and Ethnicity

Firearms are the most common means used in deaths by suicide in Indiana. From 2016 to 2020, 2,958, or 57%, of suicide deaths in Indiana involved firearms, with a suicide rate of 8.84 deaths per 100,000 people (Indiana Department of Health, Stats Explorer, 2022).